Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast Special Edition #16, a 91-minute podcast of a workshop presentation by Blue Box co-hosts Dan York and Jonathan Zar along with security researcher Shawn Merdinger called the "Black Bag Security Briefing" at O'Reilly's Emerging Telephony Conference on February 27, 2007.

At O'Reilly's 2007 Emerging Telephony conference last week in San Francisco, Jonathan, Shawn Merdinger and I presented a 90-minute workshop in which we discussed the threats to VoIP security, the tools out there to test/defend your network and the best practices for securing VoIP systems. We had a great audience that also included folks like blogger/podcaster Ken Camp and IETF RAI Area Director Cullen Jennings. This is a recording of the full session including the Q&A.

Slides will be available soon.

Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as replies to this post or via e-mail to blueboxpodcast@gmail.com. Audio comments sent as attached MP3 files are definitely welcome and will be played in future shows. You may also call the listener comment line at either +1-206-350-2583 or via SIP to 'bluebox@voipuser.org' to leave a comment there.

Thank you for listening and please do let us know what you think of the show.

Full Disclosure

Jonathan Zar is affiliated with Pingalo and is the Secretary of VOIPSA and member of the Board of Directors.

This is a personal project and neither the Internet Society, Pingalo nor VOIPSA have any formal connection to this podcast. In the interest of transparency we just thought you should know our affiliations.

Why "Blue Box"?

We chose the name "Blue Box" primarily as a nod to the era of phone phreaking in part to illustrate that threats to telephony are not new - they just continue to change and evolve. That and admittedly the name just sounded cool.